Praise be to Allah for my lowliness. O Lord, have mercy on
me, diminish my mistakes, and preserve my Iman for me. What sadness at my lack of sadness;
what sorrow over the sunna and the departure of its people; what longing for believing
brothers to share with me in weeping; what grief over the loss of people who were
light-giving lamps of Sacred Knowledge, men of taqwa, and treasure-troves of every good;
alas for not finding a dirhem that is halaal or a brother who is loving.

Great good tidings to him whose own faults divert him from
those of others, and woe to whom the faults of others divert him from his own.

How long will you see the speck in your brother's eye and
forget the log in your own? How long will you praise yourself, your prattle, your style,
while blaming religious scholars and searching out people's shameful points, knowing as
you do that the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) forbade it saying:

"Mention not your dead save with good, for they have gone
onto what they have sent ahead."

Of course, I realise that you will defend yourself by telling me
the attacks are only for those who've never smelled the scent of Islam and don't know what
Muhammad (Allah bless him and give him peace) brought and that is your jihad. Not so, by
Allah those who you attack know what is even better than the amount that suffices if the
servant acts on it to make him succeed. Moreover, they are ignorant of a great deal that
does not concern them. And "the excellence of a persons Islam includes leaving
what does not concern him." By Allah man! Give us respite from you, for you are an
eloquent polemicist who neither rests nor sleeps. Beware of doubt-creating, problematic
religious questions. Our Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) was offended by too
many questions, found fault with them, and forbade excessive asking. He also said:

"The thing I fear most for my people is the eloquent
hypocrite."

Too much talking, if free of mistakes, hardens the heart
when it concerns the halaal and haraam. So how should it be when it concerns the words of
the Yunusiyya, the philosophers, and expressions of kufr, which make hearts go blind? By
Allah, we've become a laughing stock in existence. How long will you disinter the details
of philosophical expressions of kufr for us to refute with our minds? You've swallowed,
man, the poison of the philosophers and of their works more than once; and by too much
using of a poison one's constitution gets addicted. It collects, by Allah, in the body.

O, what longing for a group among whom the Qur'an is
recited with reflection, where awe is experienced through its meditation, where there is
silence from its contemplation. O, what longing for an assembly where the pious are
mentioned, for mercy descends where the righteous people are remembered, not where the
righteous are spoken of with contempt and curses. The sword of al-Hajjaj and the tongue of
Ibn Hazm were brothers [ie no Muslims was safe from them], and now you have joined the
family. By Allah, give us a break from talking about "the bid`a of Thursday",
and "eating the grains", and rather make a serious effort to remember the bid`as
we used to consider the source of all misguidance, which have now become the "genuine
sunna" and the "basis of tawhid", and whoever doesn't know them is a Kafir,
or a donkey, and whoever doesn't call him a Kafir is a bigger Kafir than Pharaoh. You
consider the very Christians like us.

By Allah, there are misgivings in hearts. You are fortunate
if your faith in the two shahadahs has remained unscathed. Oh the disappointment of him
who follows you, for he is exposed to corruption in basic beliefs and to dissolution.
Particularly if he is short of learning and religion, a self-indulgent idler who does well
for you by fighting on your behalf with his hand and tongue, while he is actually your
enemy in his being and heart. What are your followers but hidebound do-nothings of little
intelligence, common liars with dull minds, silent outlanders strong in guile, or dryly
righteous without understanding? If you don't believe it, just look at them and honestly
assess them.

The donkey of your lusts, O Muslim, has stepped forward to
applaud your self. How long will you dote on your ego and attack the finest people? How
long will you credit it, and disdain the pious? How long will you exalt it, and despise
the devotees? How long will you be its closest friend, and detest the abstinent? How long
will you praise your own words in a manner you do not even use for the Sahihs of Bukhari
and Muslim? Would that the hadiths of the two Sahihs were safe from you, as you
continually attack them, by suggesting weakness, considering them fair game, or with
figurative explanations and denial. Hasn't the time come to give up? Is it not it time to
repent and atone? Aren't you at that tenth of a man's life when he reaches seventy years
and the final departure has drawn near? Indeed, By Allah, I don't recall that you remember
death much. You sneer at whoever remembers death. So I don't think you'll take to my words
or hear my exhortation. You will, instead, probably show great energy and concern to
demolish this piece of paper with weighty volumes, snipping off the ends of my sentences
for me until you gain the upper hand and can close the argument with a triumphant
"...at all. And he was silent."

If this is how you stand in my eyes, and I am someone
sympathetic to you, fond and affectionate, how do you think you stand with your enemies?
By Allah among your enemies, there are the righteous and intelligent men and virtuous
ones, just as among your friends there are the wicked, liars, ignoramuses, layabouts, the
vile, and cattle.

I can accept that you should publicly disparage me, while
secretly benefiting from what I have said. "May Allah have mercy on the man who shows
me my faults" [words attributed to `Umar (Allah be pleased with him)]. For I have
many faults and sins, and woe to me if I myself do not repent, and how enormous my
disgrace from Him who knows the Hidden. The sole remedy for me is the forgiveness of Allah
and His clemency, His giving success and His guidance.

Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds. Allah bless our
Master Muhammad, the Last of the Prophets, his Family and Companions one and all.